Beowulf digest, Vol 1 #226 - 10 msgs

Joe:
Although a standards committee might come in handy for the systems
themselves, (minimally, standards could be set for communications between
distributive systems), I don't think regulating source code, at this time, is
a reasonable option. Distributive applications are infants; they need time
to grow and encourage additional application development.
Beowulf is a tremendously promising technology. It need not be given the
UNIX BSD path to follow. The proven way to have excellent, quickly-cycled,
software development is by allowing non regulated open source.
I concur, however, that a comprehensive repository need be developed.
Sincerely,
Eric S. Lewis